thewayne: (Cyranose)
This is awesome. Guy in Austria built a robot using Lego Mindstorm that presses the Next page on the Kindle, then presses the space bar on his Mac to take a picture of the screen. The image is run through a cloud-based OCR package and a text file is returned.

Totally impractical since you can download software that'll strip the DRM in moments, but still pretty awesome cool.

The creator has a great comment on the Vimeo page quoting Jeff Bezos in an O'Reilly interview talking about people should have the right to share, trade, or sell ebooks, he then turns around and takes that right away from his customers.

http://vimeo.com/73675285

http://allthingsd.com/20130906/how-a-man-in-austria-used-legos-to-hack-amazons-kindle-e-book-security/
thewayne: (Default)
They had a sale at the campus bookstore last Friday so I went ahead and bought two copies. I'm in no hurry to install it as I've heard reports of incompatibility with Adobe CS3, so I'll wait a bit, maybe I'll do it when we're in Phoenix in case we have problems, the Apple store is only a few miles away. Still, no reason not to read up on a few things.

Tweaking the User Interface

MASSIVE Ars Technica review (15 pages or so of material) (and the Slashdot thread thereof)

First look at installing it

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